Kent Bush: Trump is no threat to nomination

Kent Bush

Tuesday

Mar 22, 2011 at 12:01 AMMar 22, 2011 at 10:15 PM

Do people really not see through the thin veneer of Donald Trump's venture into presidential politics? All of the conservative pundits got excited when Trump said he might run, and the polls showed a level of popularity for him.

Do people really not see through the thin veneer of Donald Trump's venture into presidential politics? All of the conservative pundits got excited when Trump said he might run, and the polls showed a level of popularity for him.

Now, Trump is making the rounds, saying ridiculous things to anyone who will listen. Of course, it is a mere coincidence that he has a television show that he is actively promoting at the same time. Even Trump couldn't afford all of the free publicity he has been able to generate with his presidential pretense.

As a coalition of governments –– including our own –– began military enforcement of United Nation mandates in Libya, Trump decided to use a fun story about Libya to get more headlines. He claimed he once "screwed" Moammar Gadhafi in a business deal on Fox News.

"I rented him a piece of land," Trump told the Fox and Friends gang. He said Gadhafi paid "more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land."

Trump is a carnival barker. His only goal is to draw more attention to himself. He is no threat to win the GOP nomination in 2012. But true conservatives can go ahead and start worrying now.

If he has enough fun playing in this arena, Trump is just the kind of self-funded megalomaniac that would run as a third party candidate and handicap any efforts of the Republican Party to wrest the White House away from Barack Obama.

A rose by any other name will still try to kill you

I found out this weekend that I am maybe the best husband in the entire world. I had suspected it before, but now I am sure of it.

I almost never buy my wife flowers, and it is even more rare that I would buy her roses. (In my defense, my wife doesn't love flowers like some women do. Otherwise, I might do it more often.)

Instead of being an unromantic husband, it turns out that I was just protecting her from evil flowers that might try to kill her if given a chance.
A rose by any other name will take you out if given a chance.

This weekend, we visited some family in Oklahoma. My sister-in-law had a bandage on her hand, so the circumstances surrounding her injury were bound to come up sooner or later. She had been shopping in a greenhouse when she scratched her hand on a thorny rose bush.

The minor injury continued to worsen until she became concerned enough to have it checked by a doctor. She was told it appeared to be a bacterial infection, and she was prescribed antibiotics.

I had never heard of anything like this, so my inquisitive nature led me to search the Internet for more information. It seems like common sense now, but I had never considered how dangerous roses could be.

When the thorns break the skin, the wound can be exposed to many harmful conditions. Bacteria live in the soil and can be transmitted this way.

You can be slow to heal because of herbicides or insecticides that are introduced into the wound when a thorn pricks the skin. Another potential problem is sporotrichosis, a fungal skin infection that is very common in rose gardeners and greenhouse workers.

So if your husband gives you roses, don't think he is better than me. In fact, you might watch your back.

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